Imagine If

Education is often optimized for what can be easily measured, and in that process we can lose sight of what and who those measurements are supposed to serve.

One of the most important questions in school transformation is this: what happens when a school pauses, even briefly, and tries to align learning more closely to its values rather than only to its metrics?

That does not solve the tension. Schools still live inside systems of examinations, accountability, and comparison. But it does reveal something important: much of what parents, educators, and communities say they value in education is not what schools are consistently organized to produce.

The work at Liceul Teoretic “Dr. Luca” in Brăila offers a glimpse of another possibility. The article describes a broader school effort using project-based learning, including teacher training, seven projects across age groups, and a public exhibition at the Brăila Museum. In one project, students investigated the city’s underground cellars through historical research, field visits, interviews, scientific analysis, model-building, and public presentation. The point was not to avoid rigor. It was to place rigor in the service of meaning, inquiry, and contribution.

https://obiectivbr.ro/un-alt-fel-de-scoala-hrubele-brailei-proiectul-inedit-al-elevilor-de-la-dr-luca/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQx1WZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeOzvjxR8JjDTocJO2Lp538Ebp0VhZNtwmX6r208VK6MfrJlWcu2QQlX8eo8g_aem_PIYZWOpnp876lsyNzT03CQ

Un alt fel de școală. Hrubele Brăilei, proiectul inedit al elevilor de la ”Dr. Luca” La Liceul Teoretic ”Dr. Luca”, ultimele trei săptămâni de dinaintea vacanței ”de schi” nu au semănat cu un calendar obișnuit de cursuri

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We thought some of you might find this a bit of fun….

Some things that we do when we aren’t in lessons…
This list was put together a few years ago by a group of Summerhill children and adults in just a few minutes of brainstorming – it was in response to an OfSTED visit request…..

Acting
Animal husbandry – looking after pets, helping with Zoe’s horse, Amy’s sheep & pigs
Art
Astronomy
Ball games
Basketball
Being an Ombudsman, Beddies Officer, Chairperson, Secretary etc
Bird watching
Board games
Break dancing
Building huts
Building tree huts
Camping
Cinema
Cleaning
Climbing trees
Collecting stamps
Collecting things
Collecting wood for the bonfire –a whole school activity
Composing
Computer programming
Computing
Cooking
Creative writing
Creating games
Critical thinking
Cultural integration – playing games from other cultures etc
Cycling
Dancing
Desktop publishing
Discussions - whole school activity
Digital music mixing
DJ ing – using two turntables, scratching etc
Doing e-mail
Doing laundry
Drama
Dungeons & Dragons
Electrical work – fine tuning and adjusting own TVs, computer games, hi-fi etc
Enjoying yourself
Exploring the countryside –ancient monuments, places of interest
Fixing computers
Fixing bikes
Gambling
Gaming
Gardening
Going for walks
Going into the town – involves banking, shopping, etc
Going on trips – to poetry evenings, theatre etc.
Going out for bike rides
Gymnastics
Gym
Haircutting
Handiwork – knitting, sewing, embroidery
Hanging around with friends
Homework
Interior design – own room decoration
Imaginative play
Jogging
Learning languages off each other
Lego
Listening to music
Litter pick-up – a whole school activity
Looking after house plants
Mah-jong
Making campfires
Making posters
Making valentines cards for the whole school
Make-up, manicuring etc
Massage
Meditation
Photocopying
Photography
Photographic modelling – making up the models, posing them, etc
Playing
Play fighting
Playing cards
Playing computer games
Playing “Gram” – this means being a DJ for the whole school dances
Playing strategy games
Playing with little kids
Read books
Reading Newspapers
Reading magazines
Riding bikes
Role playing
Running Cafes
Running shops – involves budgeting, stocking, security etc
Sandpit
Sending notes to each other –younger kids writing letters to one another.
Showing visitors around
Singing
Skateboarding
Sleeping
Socialising
Spending time with grown-ups –talking about this and that
Sports
Storytelling
Sunbathing
Swinging
Swimming
Table tennis
Taking the books around for school elections
Talking about life problems
Talking about interesting things
Telling jokes
Thinking
TORK – an in-school game of Frisbee invented by a pupil and staff
Trampolining
Treasure hunts – making & playing
War games
Warhammer
Watching DVDs
Whole school games – Dr Death, Murder game, Cold War game - these games involve strategy planning, investigation, writing & reading school newspaper articles, making signs etc.
Woodwork
Work experience
Writing letters
Yoga